Top 100 Personal Growth Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

102. “Personal growth doesn’t occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development.”

— Farshad Asl

103. “The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.”

— Deepak Chopra

104. “Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.”

— Benjamin Hoff

105. “The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

— Yvon Chouinard

106. “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

107. “Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.”

— Ken Jennings

108. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”

— Robert Foster Bennett

109. “This is why we seek personal growth – to be free from the pain we cause ourselves, to make better choices, to feel better about who we are becoming, to act more confidently in social situations, and to unleash our full creativity and contributions into the world in order to make our highest difference. Gaining Personal Freedom in this sense is letting go of any self-doubt and self-loathing and allowing ourselves permission to be our unique, powerful, authentic selves.”

— Brendon Burchard

110. “So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.”

— Donald L. Hicks

111. “The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

112. “People don’t expect perfection, but they do appreciate when they see leaders who sincerely try to improve and ask for help in areas where they might be weak. You don’t have to be good at everything to lead, but the best leaders are honest about where they need assistance, working to fill in those gaps, while also taking action and responsibility for areas of personal growth.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

113. “Friends, personal growth is supposed to be personal. It’s not one size fits all. It has to be customized to you and the way you learn best, or it’s never going to stick. Be strict about your goal but flexible in how you get there.”

— Rachel Hollis

114. “When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn’t mean you are on the wrong path or that you have to listen to them. Just because someone continues to judge you from where you were doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

— Susan C. Young